The BMV project: Search for photon oscillations into massive particles

TL;DR

This paper reports on the BMV project's efforts to detect photon oscillations into massive particles like axion-like particles using strong magnetic fields, highlighting recent results and ongoing experiments.

Contribution

It introduces new experimental results from the BMV project and collaborations, advancing the search for photon oscillations into massive particles.

Findings

Preliminary results from the BMV experiment at LNCMP.

Main results from collaboration with LULI at École Polytechnique.

Progress in detecting photon oscillations into axion-like particles.

Abstract

In this contribution to PSAS08 we report on the research activities developed in our Toulouse group, in the framework of the BMV project, concerning the search for photon oscillations into massive particles, such as axion-like particles in the presence of a strong transverse magnetic field. We recall our main result obtained in collaboration with LULI at \'Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France). We also present the very preliminary results obtained with the BMV experiment which is set up at LNCMP (Toulouse, France).